Posted on January 24, 2013, in Uncategorized and tagged Michelle Fields, National Debt, Next Generation, PJ Media. Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments.
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Posted on January 24, 2013, in Uncategorized and tagged Michelle Fields, National Debt, Next Generation, PJ Media. Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments.
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Michelle, it’s not the older people who are putting the debt on your shoulders…..it is the elected politicians, of whom the majority are being elected because of the majority voting of the young and minorities in this country. So, in reality, it is the young and the black and the hispanic voters in this country who are adding to the debt for our nation’s young.
Michelle,
I applaud your stand on the National Debt. I have 9 grandchildren so I have a very large stake in the long term future. The government promised me in 1960 that if I would work for 49 years (self employed for 48 out 49 and paid the full amount myself) and contribute my share to Social Security that I would enjoy the full benefits of social security. In 1965, the budget was unified and Social Security income as spent on a variety of programs to the benefit? or detriment of all age groups, therefore it is inaccurate to place the responsibilty for the Federal Deficit on Social Security but must be appropriately attributed to all government programs including medicaid, aid to dependent children, aid to education as well as overly generous government benefits and pensions for government workers. Why don’t we level the playing field and make government workers pay into social security and require that they live with the same criticisim that we old folks now enjoy rather than enjoying large pensions and early retirement at tax payer expense. I would much prefer to pay my own way as long as all citizens? ,subjects ? did the same. If I had control over what I paid into Social Security, I could now take out $180,000.00 per year based on my 48 year investment record for the next 48 years and or leave it to my grandchildren. I don’t like the class warfare that we are headed into, including senilicide as a possible solution to the government spending problem.
FYI, Total government spending, including state and local is aproximately 6.2 trillion dollars and rising. 40% of GDP? We must work together on this!
Michelle,
I’m a retired 70 year old, with two daughters and seven grandchildren-the oldest of whom is 19. He has a part time, after school job, from which he gets his spending and gas money. He complains about taxes, and wants an ‘under-the-table’ job so he can keep more of the money he earns. I tell him, emphatically, that he, his sisters, and his cousins, have to work (hard and often), pay their taxes, and keep me, and his grandmother, in Social Security and Medicare. If they don’t, and we don’t get our monthly check (there is no such thing as a Social Security Trust Fund-with cash in it, anyway. Monthly payments come directly from current taxes), then he can expect us to move in and mooch as much as we can from them. I also tell him: “I should pass-on within the next 20 years, and once that happens then, he can have his ‘under-the-table’ job.”
Do you think I should become a Democrat?
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